The turbo nature of this tournament has left many players with a 20 big blind stack. Zachary Goldberg was in that spot and re-raised all in over a 10,000 open. While his opponent was thinking, he asked Goldberg "will you show me if I fold?" He got no answer and let his hand go and Goldberg didn't oblige, sending his cards into the muck.
2019 World Series of Poker
With four top 20 finishes, including one final table, Calvin Anderson has had a great run at this year's series so far. If his heater continues as it has done over the last 40 minutes, he will have no trouble repeating that success. He has won a slew of pots that have taken him to over 10 times the starting stack and was closing in on 500,000 chips after getting paid on the river when he had the nut flush.
He did lose a flip in the next hand though with pocket-eights versus a short-stack's ace-king hit on a ![]()
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. The all-in player seemed relieved to have broken the pattern, shaking his head and laughing as he said "someone had to put a stop to that s***...ridiculous."
Level: 15
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
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. Martin Finger was facing a 45,000 bet from Asher Conniff. He made the call but mucked upon seeing Conniff had rivered a backdoor flush with ![]()
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Level: 14
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 3,000
Kartik Ved, Boris Kolev and Daria Feshchenko are on the rise, whereas David Bach and Ezequiel Waigel have gotten short.
Calvin Anderson opened to 5,500 under the gun and was three-bet to 18,000 from the small blind. On the ![]()
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flop, he inst-folded to a 13,000 continuation bet. He is left with 25 big blinds after that hand.
The numbers are in and of the 1,191 runners, less than half remain with 544 still in contention.
That's the end of late reg for this flight. The final number of entries will be posted here shortly, just as soon as they have been totted up.